Word: seven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Army's Mark Matheson pulled a distance-freestyle double, grabbing the 500 and 1000 freestyle races. In addition, seven other Cadets posted individual-race victories...
...choice of KKR as a repudiation of Johnson, who had become a symbol of executive greed after first proposing to buy out RJR (1987 sales: $15.8 billion) for $75 a share. Company directors were outraged when they read accounts, leaked by insiders, of how much Johnson and his seven colleagues planned to rake in from the deal: as much as $2.6 billion. Though Johnson later insisted he had planned to share the potential gains with 15,000 RJR employees, the battle lines were clearly drawn -- not just between Johnson and KKR but between Johnson and his board of directors...
...that time 30 years have passed. Mili is unchanged; her mother has dramatically aged. The conclusion is freighted with mystery, amplified by Sendak's floating vistas and romantic palette. Although themes of death and resurrection haunt the narrative, its illustrator removes any chill with fleeting allusions to Mozart, the Seven Dwarfs, unfolding flowers and amiable canines...
...lower it. If the project is one of those rare ones that have a possibility of appealing to practically everybody, the ( filmmakers are tempted to ensure that the last cipher in the least-common- denominator audience receives its message loud and clear (especially loud). Hey, his six bucks (or seven) is as good as anyone else...
...cover up his soft spots; the lethal blond and the flick-knife dialogue on which the movies (and so the rest of us) still feed -- all of them seem to have been copyrighted by the onetime oil executive who only began writing at the age of 45. In seven novels and in the screenplays he wrote for Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock, Chandler scripted much of the unshaven poetry and arsenic idealism that form us now, and haunt us still, in Mickey Spillane beer ads and smoky urban videos, from Jack Nicholson's Chinatown to Joan Didion's Malibu...